The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-12
OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN.
The Things our People Find Time to Talk
About from Day to Day.

The Things our People Find Time to Talk
About from Day to Day
! An Uncle Toms Cabin Company gave
an entertainment in School Hall Thursday
night of last week. Probably had Harriet
| Beecher Stowe been indowcd with tho super
natural power of seeing what the future
had in store for her famous "UnUln Toms
Cabin" story she would have hestated, ere
she weaved in thrilling chapters tho tale
Of slavery and its fearful suffcrings. The
play Thursday evening abounded With
errors and was an abortion upon the original
drama. About one hundred aud fifty
people were kept in good humor however,
by the originality Of Marks, the lawyer, and
Gumption Cute, the speculative Yankee.
The company, probably, made expenses.
BY trusting too much to idle gossip we
put our foot in it last week in saving that
the Hersh Steam Heating Company would
not locate here. We should have said tina;
the contract for the erection of a tWo-sturv
brick building, forty by eighty feet IN df-
mensiors, with frame addition fourteen
by twenty-one feet had been awarded and
ground ha | already been broken on the
flats opposite the Lehigh Valley railroad.
la order that the buildings would be ready
for occupancy sometime during May AS
stated some time ago the company will en-
ploy about fifteen or twenty practical work
men, to begin with, an1 as the Steam Heat
ing business is as yet in lis infancy in time
this number will probably be greatly in
creased,
Tho regular monthly meeting of the
Lehlghton School Board convened at the
office of DIR. c. +. Horn, Tuesday evening
at eight o clock, with the following members
present: President. C. T. Horn; secretary.
f. Pierce Lentz; John Peter, Samuel Fry,
James II. Smith. The minutes of the |
previous meeting were read and approved. |
The following bills were presented, and the |
secretary requested to draw orders and pay
the same:
+. W. ClauSs, crate. I:5
I, D. Thomas, fiyc gallons oil. 75
On motion of L. p. Lentz seconded by |
James p. Smith, w. George Miller, L. Ii. |
Nothstein and Frank Lebenguth were ap-
pointed as committee of experts to ex- |
anime the floor of School Hall and the four
rooms on the second focr in regard TO their |
safety, and report TO the school board in |
writing the result of said investigation.
On motion Of j. p Smith, seconded BY |
Samuel Fry, it was resolved that the sec. |
letary request the physicians of town to |
report to the president of the school board |
all cases of contagious diseases, especially !
typhoid fever. 50 that proper precaution |
may be taken for the safety of the scholars |
in the public schools. On motion, ad- !
iournst.
The elocutionarY and musical enter
uinments in School Hall, Saturday and |
Monday evenings, under the management
of the ladies of the N. E, church, were
grand success. Among the special features !
the singing by Ye Olde Folkes III ye olde |
time dress, deserves particular mention;
the singers were loudly applauded both |
evenings by well pleased audience. A |
pantomime, Searching for Happiness" |
in which ten little girls charactcrstically |
represented fame, knowledge, love, music, !
&C., was well received; recitation, !
''Mother and Poet" by Miss Major. was
exceedingly well rendered and heartily ap-
plauded; a solo, "'rit for Tat by Mrs. A. |
j. During, won for the singer prolonged
applause; a solo, "Mrs. Fogerty's Christ.
mas Cake" by Mabel Wheatley. created a
ripple of laughter; Mrs. A. j. Durlirg re-
cited "Mell,' beautiful poem, with much
nathos anu erect; Mrs. JalieY wax works
exhibition drought down the house."
while a recitation, "Ehe Bald Headed |
Man," by Miss Mary Driebelbies. was loud
y applauded music and recitation. "Spirit
of LIBERTY" by Misses Lizzie Ash, Daisy
IIibbler, Mary Ebbert, Mary DreibeiGies. |,
Mamie Gabel and Ella Peters, was splrn.
didly rendered and much Appreciates
rabitha Primrose lcctured on "Woman's
Rights" which ended amidst the convulsed |
laughter of the audience; "'The Elevator" |
a dialogue in three scenes, ,occasioned much |
merriment and was loudly applauded; the !
entertainment both evenings closed with a |
military drill and march song by eleven
boys, which was exceedingly well rendered. |
The receipts for both evenings amounted |
to $4,000. of which, after paying all ax-
penses, about 800 will revert to the
church.